 Cavalcade was retired to stud duty at Sloane's Brookmeade Stud in Upperville, Virginia.In October 1940, at the age of nine, he was being transferred to stand at Shandon Farm near Lexington, Kentucky when he contracted "Shipping fever" and died.Of his limited number of offspring, the most notable was the gelding Dinner Party, who won 37 steeplechase races.